The Sixth Amendment

The sixth amendment is a right to a speedy trial, which means in all criminal prosecutions the accused shall Enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed. The right to a speedy trial may be derived from a provision of Magna Carta.

A lot of the same languages were brought into the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776 and from then into the Sixth Amendment. The 6th Amendment states that in all criminal trials, the defendant has the right to demand that a trial be held quickly and also that they have the right to demand that a trial can be publicly. It also states that the accused has to be fully informed of both the charges against them. It also states that the defendant has the right to be faced with the people who placed the charges and that the Defendant has the right to call witnesses in their defense, and that the defendant has the right to have a lawyer assist them in making their defense.

The main reason for this situation is because the state did not want to interfere with cases involving misdemeanor. However, felony cases, owing to their significance in a state’s stability, required that the state